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Online bulletin board inventor Randy Suess dies at 74

Randy Suess, the creator of the software for first online public bulletin board, died on December 10th at the age of 74. He and Ward Christensen built the Computer Bulletin Board System (CBBS) in 1978 to give users a central place to float ideas, post notices and otherwise coordinate without meeting in person.

Back in the old days I operated a BBS called Rough Writers. I used TriBBS and Wildcat on a computer running OS/2. The main features of Rough Writers were file downloads, a forum for discussion, and online games. Some of the BBS’s at the time began connecting to usenet and I did not have the resources for that. But yeah, those were cool days and contrary to what you might read, some of the software was very sophisticated and very often free or shareware. TriBBS was shareware and Wildcat was commercial.

You take the original AOL. It basically was a BBS on a lot grander scale that could connect people to the internet. Before I used AOL I used the GEnie Information Service that was owned by General Electric. It was more telnet concentric and less graphic than AOL.

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Anyways. RIP Randy Suess. You brought entertainment to a lot of us.

 

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So You Are Either Being Banned or Being Paid Millions of Dollars?

So you are either being banned or being paid millions of dollars? That thought is both funny and kind of sad.

Streamers DrLupo, TimTheTatman, and Lirik are some of Twitch’s biggest stars — and they have just officially signed exclusive deals with the platform. Ben “DrLupo” Lupo, Timothy “TimTheTatman” Betar, and Saqib “Lirik” Zahid have a combined 10.36 million followers on Twitch, and each regularly draws thousands of concurrent viewers.

I can not find a list of permanently banned Twitch Streamers, but I know they are out there.

For example, back in November of 2019:

Misfits Gaming’s Fortnite pro Cody “Clix” Conrod tweeted last that he received a seven-day suspension from Twitch after playing with “Zayn” on his stream.

Zayn is permanently banned from streaming on Twitch due to his evasion of a stream suspension for another offense. And a player can’t be on stream with someone else who’s banned from the platform, according to Twitch’s rules.

 

Obviously some of the bans are understandable. “No streamer. You should not drive while streaming a game, shaving, and playing with your dick. That is not allowed.” I just made that up. That would be funny though. And totally serious and deadly. Do not do that.

Okay, so back to the money …

The reason that Amazon’s twitch is locking down some streamers to exclusive deals and paying them big bucks is they do not want those streamers to jump ship to other platforms–“while not driving, game playing, not shaving, and not playing with their dicks.”  They seriously hated losing Tyler “Ninja” Blevins and Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek.

Note, that as far as I know, there has been no confirmation of the exact amount that the players were paid to remain exclusive to twitch. Sources have suggested the contracts were for multi-million dollar deals.

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TMZ does hit piece against Kid Rock

Their headline is:

Kid Rock Goes on Drunken Rant About Oprah … And I Ain’t Racist!!!

The video is hardly a drunken rant though he was holding a drink in his hand and he probably was a little buzzed. The person who provided TMZ repeatedly put the sound bye in the video, “He is so racist.” That repetition is a hypnotic trick that the media loves to use. It is in fact one thing that helped create the Mega Monster that is Oprah Winfrey. Every local channel in America would do massive promotions before showing her show and created a level of repetition that no other show in America has ever enjoyed. I obviously can’t speak to all markets where her show was syndicated, but in the Atlanta Market what WSB TV did was weird. Given the mediocrity of her show and yet its massive popularity I would strongly suspect what WSB was doing was typical all across America.

The elite media went in to overdrive to create Oprah Winfrey.

That same media is doing its best to hypnotize people to dislike celebrities such as Kid Rock who support President Trump. They can build you up and when they want, they can do a pretty good job of ripping you down.

When you are watching anything that repeats, repeats, repeats turn it the fuck off. They are messing with your mind.

I tend to like TMZ and generally have not noticed their use of hypnotism so much in the past–or just haven’t been paying attention–but it was there in that piece.

And for full disclosure I do not like Oprah Winfrey and so that does bias my opinion.
I do not like when hypnotism is being used to create celebrities who are going to be used for other planned propaganda and agendas.

TMZ is syndicated by Warner Media that is now owned by AT&T.
Its creator and person still in control of creative content is Harvey Levin who has a net worth of around $15 million.

Oprah Winfrey was distributed by King World.

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PG&E Fails to Have Law Holding It Liable for Billions in Wildfire Damages Thrown Out

California’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, was hosed by the courts in an effort to save its ass from liabilities in the wildfires that happened in 2017 and 2018. Most of the elite media always like to insert the phrase, “wildfires linked to PG&E’s faulty electrical power grid” but that is so freakishly misleading. Winds knock down a power line, well according to elite media, that is a failure of the power grid. Someone shoots down a power line, well, that is a failure of the power grid. Godzilla wrecks a system, well, that is a failure of the power grid.

The actual court ruling has nothing to do with the “failure of the power grid.” Rather it has to do with the law.

“The California Constitution provides that private property may be taken or damaged for a public use as long as just compensation is paid to the owner,” Montali wrote in the ruling. “This section does not mention liable parties, cost recovery, or socialization of costs. In short, the California Constitution imposes strict liability in favor of the owner of property that has been taken or damaged through a public use or purpose and does not concern itself with the rights or liabilities of (who) or what did the damage.”

PG&E failed to show a utility had “ever been denied cost recovery under this principle when they have been found prudent,” Montali added.

Pacific Gas & Electric is being held responsible for fires due to faulty equipment that many feel should have had better safety mechanisms in place. The Camp Fire in Paradise, California that burned 153 thousand acres had two separate ignition points and those ignition points suggests PG&E equipment may have caused the fires.

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